Circle Tie Dye Technique: For Easy Tie Dye Shirts and More

While tie dye using the spiral tie dye technique is a little tricky and harder to know how it will turn out, this circle tie dye technique is easy to do and much more predictable.

Ease and predictability is what makes this circle tie dye technique especially desirable for both beginners and those making tie dye gifts, (less chance that your tie dye shirts, or whatever you are tie dying, will come out way different than you plan).

Pinch Center of Design. First determine where you want the center of your circle design to be. Pinch this spot and bind a circle of fabric there with a rubber band. Use glove to touch fabric that is soaked in soda ash water.

Bunch and Bind. Now continue to bunch and bind the fabric at even intervals. Or not even... it's that easy!

The circle will start where you made your first bind and continue outwards from there...

Bind until you run out of fabric to bind. You can do this with just about any garment you want...

Rinse garments in warm water to remove excess dye. Remove any rubber bands as you continue to rinse. Rinse until water runs nearly clear.

If rinsing multiple garments... When you're done rinsing each garment, put rinsed fabric on a clean plastic bag (or other plastic) and never let your various projects lay against each other at this stage, the dye will transfer at this point.

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